JAG (TV Series) Nobody's Child (1999) User Reviews

Harmon Rabb's childhood trauma shows his soft spot for lost children

[hindsonevansmike · 7/10 · 4 June 2019]

A different line of script from the usual Navy/Carrier/Seaman stories, with a chance for Harm to show some emotion as he investigates the murder of (then locates the twin sister of) Annie Lewis, confirming the name of the "unknown child" along the way..

The Terri Coulter character reappears, repeating her working relationship with Harm from "Jimmy Blackhorse" and they make a good investigative team, complementing (and providing a counterpoint to) the usual "Harm-Mac" duopoly.

A happy ending enables Annie Lewis to be buried by name, and Dar-Lin Lewis to begin recovering from her ordeal.

This episode spun off two further adventures within the year. The Dar-Lin Lewis character would appear twice more, in "The Adversaries" (S04Ep19) and "Goodbyes" (S04Ep24) within the 1999 Season Four series. (Review updated 02MAR2021)

Unusual story for NCIS

[rms125a · 8/10 · 8 July 2020]

Sad story about an abused little girl who is brutally murdered inside a US Navy-run building. Complications between DC police and NCIS about whose case it is leads Harm to jump in the fray. Yes, as another poster has pointed out, it is unrealistic but we always suspend disbelief when watching TV. (This ain't a documentary.)

Vyto Ruginis, unrecognizable from the role for which he is best-known in the U.S. (Arkady Kolcheck in NCIS: Los Angeles (2009)), plays a creepy (allegedly reformed) one-time child molester who gets hauled in by Rabb for questioning about the brutal murder of a little girl. He plays the role so well (including being well aware of all his rights and privileges as so many perps are) you want to smash the character's head into smithereens.

Finding the perp will take longer as the episode ends without the perp being uncovered or discovered ... yet.

the judge advocate corps doesn't investigate

[sandcrab277 · 5/10 · 30 January 2019]

Ncis for the navy or cid for the army and the air force uses yet again another branch ... the j.a.g. merely gets the results but doesn't drive the show so why the program j.a.g. is so unrealistic ....so are telephone communications ... this show should be deleted for lack of real substance

A 22 minute episode that was expanded into a 44 minute one

[professor_of_gamez · 5/10 · 29 January 2024]

Jeez. If they removed all of the scenes where little or nothing was happening to advance the storyline, this would be at MOST a 22 minute episode.

I also got confused a couple of times, when they kept referring to the girl from the bus who was murdered during the opening scene as being 5 years old ... when she clearly APPEARED to be 10-12. I thought maybe they were talking about someone else.

Also, how unsatisfying an ending, when the bad guy was caught, and the magic words "to be continued..." did not appear in the closing sequence.

It is quite unusual for a JAG episode NOT to be wrapped up in a single episode (without the "to be continued").